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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1938
Page
4
A fragmented plea promotes benevolence toward friends, relatives, neighbors, and enemies, urging charitable judgment and prayers. The text mixes garbled references to electricity costs, labor taxes, and material expenses, suggesting consumer focus on cost reductions and fair treatment in utility charges.
The article notes patience in farmers as the Baltimore Oriole damages grapes and peas yet provides value by eating pests. It says orioles eat many insects like weevils and wasps, reducing garden harm, and suggests their presence is a blessing despite some fruit destruction.
Local reminiscences recall a long list of visitors and family gatherings around Crystal Lake. Detroit residents David Hammond and Miss Martha Wiseig spent the week with relatives. The piece notes remodeling at Gottlieb Kuebler’s farm near Lodi and various weekend guests at Arbor and other Michigan locales.
A narrator scans headlines from the evening paper summarizing crime and divorces, then recounts a midnight walk home under a bright moon. The peaceful nocturnal scene contrasts with the day’s miseries as houses and trees cast queer shadows along the quiet street.
A government economist predicts the 1939 federal deficit will exceed 43 billion dollars in a slide rule estimate. The 12.5 billion annual expenditure dwarfs daily, hourly, and even per second costs, while the top wealthy few earning over a million dollars a year could barely cover two days of government outlays.
William R. Kuhns editor of Bankine official publication of the American Bankers Association urges aggressive advertising by business to overcome inertia and revive trade. He argues public education through advertising is essential to counteract a prevailing low mood and is within business control.
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